We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.
It is not good for the country to have a college professor as a President.
I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.
You have a college degree? You can barely talk.
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.
I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad I didn't go. That might have changed.
What's really appealing about women's cycling in America? If you took a poll in the women's peloton, I would bet you that 90% of the women have college degrees, and a lot of them have Masters. The women's peloton is very well educated.
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.
I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
I've had training in electronics engineering, of all things, and in languages. But I've never taken any degree, something I share with Lewis Mumford, I think.
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
